Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Installation view: Martin Hornshøj, Anna Lorbeer
Martin Hornshøj, Detail
Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Anna Lorbeer, Detail
Martin Hornshøj, Detail
Martin Hornshøj, Detail
Martin Hornshøj and Anna Lorbeer, Detail
An installation consisting of four main elements: three visible, one only detectable by smell. Martin and I carefully cleaned the big cassette windows, giving the view outside a strange, almost hypernatural high-res quality, while leaving the floor and walls with holes, nails and debris untouched. Power sockets were blocked with tee candles and only natural light illuminated the room. The air circulated freely through open windows and doors. I applied the smell of tomato vines to the doorframe, creating an environment that puts the viewer “under the influence”. It was important to us to treat the room as an autonomous element of the show, which would be allowed to change and add its own character. Both the works’ elements and their positions in the space changed alot throughout the installation process, increasingly merging with their surroundings, so it felt more fitting to us to mark respective zones, rather than rigid positions on the floor plan. Instead of individual titles, we chose to quote from texts that had accompanied us in the months leading up to the show as a mutual offering to visitors of the show:
How to make my eyes see spring as a time zone
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My body follows me around asking for things
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An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it,
one can produce almost everything.
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Like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you
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I wanna wear your clothes when you‘re gone
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Everyone arrives one day and asks, is this it? And the
stars answer back with more stars.
(excerpts from writings by Kaveh Akbar, Victoria Chang, Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey)